• Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Berkeley Heights, N.J., said updated data from its Phase II trial of oral sapacitabine in older patients with intermediate-2 or high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes after treatment failure with front-line hypomethylating agents such as Vidaza (azacitadine, Celgene Corp.) and/or Dacogen (decitabine, Astex Pharmaceuticals Inc.) showed a median overall survival rate to date for all 63 patients of 252 days, or about eight months.